Example sentences of "[vb past] been [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'd been with Francis three years , living in his house , sleeping in his bed , caring for our child . |
| 32 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 33 | If you 'd been on Bupa . |
| 34 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 35 | I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world |
| 36 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 37 | Or if you 'd been on holiday . ’ |
| 38 | I th I think they 'd been on holiday and , she took ill on the holiday and , and came erm , she was stopping at erm , Edith 's and er it happened then . |
| 39 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |
| 40 | And when she 'd driven Billy , a pimply second-year , up to my hall of residence at the start of his fourth or fifth term , I 'd been on hand to help them unload her Mercedes estate car . |
| 41 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 42 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 43 | She did n't remember anything like this the last time she 'd been on Earth . |
| 44 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 45 | Detective Sergeant Burgess went off to report to his Superintendent , and Redpath , who 'd been on duty since midnight , decided to try for a few hours ' sleep . |
| 46 | But he has got the sort of acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath just like you 'd been on spirits all night or whatever , any sort of you know , wine and it 's not a beer sort of smell . |
| 47 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 48 | If she 'd been on 4AD , she 'd be given the same amount of attention as the Muses , Pixies or Breeders . |
| 49 | Er they 'd been to chapel with them , been to school with them , worked in other places with them , and it ended like it did . |
| 50 | He asked me if I 'd been to Eton , but seemed more or less satisfied when I told him I was educated at Cheltenham Ladies ’ College . |
| 51 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 52 | Sergei 's bed had n't been slept in , and presumably he 'd been to bed with Masha . |
| 53 | I suppose ( now ) they 'd been to bed together . |
| 54 | I 'd been to sea for a few years . |
| 55 | You 'd been to convent school as well , you said . |
| 56 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
| 57 | How awful he 'd been to Laura , how unforgivable . |
| 58 | And he was telling , you know erm it was the er Christmas thing , he was t saying he 'd been to France on a cheap ticket had n't he ? |
| 59 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
| 60 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |